![]() His work, published by influential journals including The Strategist and The Interpreter, details the complex history of the conflict, but from a first-hand perspective, as Dr Simpson moved through countries and areas bordering the conflict zone. ![]() “Studying Global Politics provides the tools to better understand and analyse international affairs and global issues, particularly in terms of assessing the reliability of sources and identifying disinformation/misinformation and propaganda from dubious sources,” Dr Simpson says. This work also informs his teaching in Global Politics courses at UniSA. UniSA senior lecturer in International Studies Dr Adam Simpson travelled to Eastern and Northern Europe earlier this year to research the conflict in Ukraine, using his expertise to sift fact from fiction in a war clouded by disinformation campaigns. Historians have the benefit of hindsight in developing narratives that provide understanding about the past, but for real time analysis of current geopolitical events, the discipline of International Studies provides more immediate insights. Three decades on, author William Faulkner’s quote: “ The past is never dead, it’s not even past” would prove a better epithet, as the Russia-Ukraine conflict – which many have called the most momentous European conflict since World War II – is partly a legacy of that era. In the early 1990s, the dissolution of the Soviet Union and the rise of democratically elected governments across several East European countries, led one political scientist to claim it wasn’t just the end of the Cold War, but the “End of History”. The articles he has written about the conflict, from a unique vantage point, offer clarity within the fog of war and underline why Australians should care about a conflict that is more than 10,000km away. Earlier this year, UniSA expert in international affairs Dr Adam Simpson travelled to Europe to research the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
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